Where does “ആഴ്മ” come from?

ആഴ്മ (Malayalam) comes from Malayalam മ, from Malayalam -അർ, from Proto-Dravidian *-ar — Indicates a human plural noun.

ആഴ്മ (Malayalam): existence

Definitions

  1. existence

Ancestry of “ആഴ്മ”, step by step

ആഴ്മ traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Malayalam മ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1MalayalamമThe 39th letter of Malayalam alphabet, called മ. Transliterated as m
2Malayalam-അർmarks the plural of nouns describing humans
3Proto-Dravidian*-arIndicates a human plural noun

via Malayalam ആഴുക

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Malayalamആഴുകto drown in to depth
2Malayalamആഴംdepth
Every word from Proto-Dravidian *-ar →Every word from Malayalam -അർ →Every word from Malayalam മ →